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Job overview
Newham’s Podiatry Service are recruiting for Band 7 podiatrists, full-time (Monday to Friday 9-5) or part-time. Be part of this exciting development in a busy, progressive, and motivated team whose patients reflect the diversity of communities and their health needs in Newham.
We are calling on enthusiastic Podiatrists who are:
- seeking a role as a Highly Specialist Podiatrist where you can use and develop your skills and knowledge across the full range of our services.
- self-motivated and motivated by others to provide excellent patient-centred care.
- looking for an opportunity to further develop your career and be an active team member.
We have a fruitful and strong culture of collaborative working with Vascular services, GPs, Diabetologists, District Nursing and Tissue Viability Services, and other Therapy services.
If the above is of interest to you and you would like to know more, get in touch with us now to find out more about this exciting career move. Please contact us on 0208 496 9007 to speak to Marie Parchment (Clinical Lead, Foot Health) for further information or if you would like to arrange an informal visit.
Main duties of the job
You will work in outpatient High Risk Foot clinics as part of the Service Level Agreement with Barts Health as well as rotations in Nail Surgery, MSK and Community Outpatient clinics including domiciliary provision.
You will need to be able to assess, create appropriate treatment plans and escalate to the appropriate services where clinically indicated.
You will need excellent skills in debridement and wound management.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Podiatry Service is currently delivered across 3 community sites, as well as Newham University Hospital and your primary base will be at The Appleby Road Health Centre. We also provide care in Nursing Homes as well as a Domiciliary Service.
- We focus on a short-term treatment planning approach to manage patient care and maximise patient input into their care, to enable us to effectively and efficiently manage caseloads
- We will help you identify your knowledge, skills and developmental needs, which will become part of your annual training plan.
- You will work in a supportive team of passionate Podiatrists, interacting and collaborating with a wide range of health professionals and clinical specialties working with our service.
- You will receive clinical and management supervision to support you in your induction and further development
- You will use your clinical and management experience and skills to supervise staff and podiatry, medical and nursing students
- You will work in outpatient High Risk Foot clinics as part of the Service Level Agreement with Barts Health as well as rotations in Nail Surgery, MSK, Community Outpatient clinics including domiciliary provision
- You will be involved in service development, including QI
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 3 year post graduate working with a minimum of 2 years at Band 6 or equivalent within the NHS.
- Experience of working with a wide range of patient and disease / pathology types including the at-risk and high-risk foot 4.
- Experience of delivering advanced care in of the diabetic foot
- Experience of delivering service development projects
- Experience of implementing new initiatives
- Experience of operational management including waiting list management, rostering, arranging meetings, training / CPD sessions.
- Experience of engaging patient / public in service development / improvement
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Effective communication skills- oral, listening and written- to encourage and enable patients and carers to adhere to their treatment plans
- Good interpersonal skills to liaise with other disciplines, and staff within the team
- Excellent psychomotor skills
- Ability to undertake vascular assessment including ABPI and interpret the results
- Ability to identify appropriate investigations for patients and to interpret the results e.g. x-rays
- Organisational and planning skills to manage your own work time and plan and develop the work and training of others Presentation skills to deliver Service Promotion, Health Promotion & Education
- Ability to identify and solve problems
- Experience of collecting, collating and reporting on service activity data
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- BSc Degree In Podiatric Medicine
- Registration with the Health Professions Council
- Certificate in local anaesthesia
- Evidence of postgraduate training
- Diabetes Module via RCoP or equivalent qualification
- Up-do date knowledge of clinical issues and recent developments in the profession
- Knowledge of RCoP code of conduct
- Knowledge of audit and risk assessment
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This advert is for Highly Specialist Podiatrist with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Podiatrist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 17 Aug 2026.
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